Suicide Slum

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DC Comics location fictional location fictional neighborhood

Suicide Slum is a notoriously impoverished and crime-ridden neighborhood in DC Comics' Metropolis, often depicted as one of the city's roughest and most downtrodden districts.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Metropolis’ Suicide Slum 1
Suicide Slum (DCAU) 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf DC Comics location ⓘ
fictional location ⓘ
fictional neighborhood ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Southside NERFINISHED ⓘ
Suicide Slum, Metropolis NERFINISHED ⓘ
appearsIn Action Comics NERFINISHED ⓘ
Superman comics NERFINISHED ⓘ
various DC Comics titles set in Metropolis ⓘ
associatedWithCharacter Bibbo Bibbowski NERFINISHED ⓘ
Gangbuster NERFINISHED ⓘ
Guardian NERFINISHED ⓘ
Steel (John Henry Irons) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Superman NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWithTeam Newsboy Legion NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryInRealWorldPublishingContext United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
depictedAs crime-ridden neighborhood ⓘ
downtrodden district ⓘ
impoverished neighborhood ⓘ
fictionalUniverse DC Universe NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstAppearedInUniverse a Superman-related comic book title ⓘ
hasEstablishment Ace o' Clubs bar NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasTypeOfCrime drug trafficking ⓘ
gang violence ⓘ
street crime ⓘ
languageOfName English ⓘ
locatedInFictionalCity Metropolis NERFINISHED ⓘ
medium comic books ⓘ
nameConnotation danger ⓘ
desperation ⓘ
narrativeRole one of the roughest districts in Metropolis ⓘ
setting for street-level crime stories ⓘ
notableFor high crime rate ⓘ
poverty ⓘ
urban decay ⓘ
ownerOfEstablishmentInContinuity Bibbo Bibbowski NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf Metropolis Southside area NERFINISHED ⓘ
publisher DC Comics ⓘ
storyFunction contrast to Metropolis’s shining downtown ⓘ
grounding Superman in everyday human problems ⓘ
theme economic hardship ⓘ
social inequality ⓘ
street-level heroism ⓘ
usedToExplore social justice issues ⓘ
systemic corruption ⓘ
urban crime ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Metropolis → notableLandmark → Suicide Slum ⓘ
The Newsboy Legion → fictionalHome → Suicide Slum ⓘ
The Newsboy Legion → baseOfOperations → Suicide Slum ⓘ
this entity surface form: Metropolis’ Suicide Slum
Metropolis (DCAU) → hasLandmark → Suicide Slum ⓘ
this entity surface form: Suicide Slum (DCAU)